Letter: On gun bill, senators put themselves ahead of nation

Editor: We Americans have just witnessed the most shameful act of cowardliness by a gang of senators not seen since the passing of the Civil Rights Act.

It was never about the 2nd Amendment, which they want you to believe. Read the proposed act and you will see the distortions that were made. The Supreme Court could have decided the issue like it has done at least three times since the amendment was first added. Maybe they were afraid the court would rule against them and expose them. They rejected the overwhelming desire of the American people because of money and obedience to the controller and money suppliers. What these senators really did was tell the American people that their own jobs and the money the get from their controller is and will be more important than the safety and well-being of all citizens. When Americans finally get money out of politics and only then will we see a country for and by the people with liberty and justice for all. That’s the government the founders designed the constitution and bill of rights for.

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Beyond being extraconstitutional, 'overwhelming desire' is a stretch- "A new CBS News poll shows support for tighter measures has dropped since the Connecticut school shootings -- down from 57 percent in December to 47 percent today.

Wanna know what real cops, not political hacks, think about gun control? Thy this from Mas Ayoob ...

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Posted: 18 Apr 2013 06:02 AM PDT

When I heard the news that the Senate had failed to pass a Universal Background Check, I was at a police seminar on the topic of active shooters. The panelists had agreed that “active shooter” was a poor descriptor, one noting that some attackers use other weapons, such as the blade-wielder in the recent Texas case. (And, of course, the Boston Marathon bombing was fresh in everyone’s mind.) Another panelist, a retired SWAT lieutenant who has responded to such things for real, pointed out that an active SHOOTER is what it takes to stop an active MURDERER.

When a retired police chief on the panel announced that he’d just received a text that the UBC had failed to make it through the Senate, the police audience erupted into applause. So much for the idea that cops all want to restrict your gun ownership. The real cops know where the problems are, and that they ain’t coming from people like you.

Alas, the White House is out of tune with that reality.

A very angry Chief Executive declares that Senators who see reality and prevent what’s best described as “the tyranny of the (uninformed) majority” have somehow subverted the process. He then manages, with practically the same lungful of air, to spout bogus statistics and simultaneously accuse those who told the truth of willful deception.

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